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* There are two popular comic strip characters known as ''Dennis the Menace'': [[Dennis the Menace US|the American one]] created by Hank Ketcham, and [[Dennis the Menace UK|the UK one]] featured in the anthology comic ''[[The Beano]]''. Both are young grade-school boys who own dogs and get into mischief, but they're otherwise quite different. To make the coincidence even more astounding, the characters first appeared (in different publications, on opposite sides of the Atlantic) ''within three days of each other'' in March 1951.

* DC and Marvel each have a character named Atom Smasher (typically differentiated by the Marvel one being Atom-Smasher). In DC, he's the size-changing grandson of the energy-projecting villain Cyclotron. In Marvel, he's the energy-projecting enemy of the size-changing hero Black Goliath.